It seems I am unable to be brief and just give a student a simple pass/fail ruling. It's clear that you're working hard at your drawings, and you are improving. At this point, it's just that you're really not following the informal head construction demo as closely as I keep telling you to, and I cannot fathom why.

As I've shown here, there are very obvious ways in which you're not following all of its elements.

• You're still skipping over the forehead - while it's not the most important thing in the world (although there is still benefit to it), it is a very obvious part of the demo.

• Your eye socket shapes are not similar to the demo at all. It looks more like you're trying to draw their eyes (the portion visible between the lids), not the sockets themselves. This is also matched by the tendency to draw the eyeball quite small, as though you're drawing the eye's pupil/iris instead.

• Your chimpanzee's eye sockets do not touch the muzzle at all, suggesting that you were using an entirely different approach - I've stressed many times that you should be taking the head construction demo and fitting it to all of your animals (stretching things where required, but still holding to those same steps/principles), rather than fitting the approach to each individual subject. It's very easy to make the assumption that "oh this won't fit" and to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Since your last submission, I ended up running into a similar issue with a student and so I found the most absurd animal head I could (a particularly banana-shaped rhino head), and applied the same principles as shown here.

Then there are some less obvious deviations:

• In your chimpanzee you end up using a somewhat more organic shape for the eye socket, with rounded corners and more curvature to the edges. While we don't inherently stick to perfectly straight lines, we do keep them fairly straight because each one is to represent a cut line being made along the surface of the cranial ball. Each one should be drawn separately, as though you were carving into a pumpkin to pop out the eyes.

• When attaching the muzzle to the cranial ball, the part of the muzzle's silhouette that makes contact must curve along the surface of the ball, in order to establish a believable connection.

At the end of the day, that issue hasn't been resolved. At this point, I feel like it's a weird sticking point that you're just not getting, and I don't really want to boot you out on account of that alone. Overall, you've shown enough improvement and understanding for me to mark this lesson as complete, so I will. But I do want to make it clear that you are not applying that head construction technique correctly.

Hopefully, once my revision of the course material reaches this point (I'm still back at Lesson 0, updating videos at a snail's pace), I'll be able to integrate the head construction process into the core lesson material more clearly, eliminate all of the other approaches that are present in the other demos, and perhaps it'll stick better with you then.

For now though, I'm going to send you onwards. Understand however that if there are any significant areas where you missed instructions that you should reasonably have been aware of, I'll be forced to revisit that decision. There are many things in a course this dense that it is entirely normal to miss and forget the first time around, but there are definitely things that should not be missed, especially when they're summarized in point form, highlighted in bold, etc.